Testimonies of Healing

It is with a deep desire to encourage others to turn wholeheartedly to God for healing that I write this testimony. About fifteen years ago I was taken ill with a severe case of colitis.

At long last I wish to take advantage of the opportunity offered through the Christian Science periodicals to express grateful acknowledgment of the benefits Science has brought me, including indispensable help in the solution of the problems of life. It is my desire to give praise and thanks to our loving God and to acknowledge His Son, Christ Jesus, as the Way-shower.

" Many , O Lord my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered" ( Ps. 40:5 ).

With a grateful heart I give praise and thanks to God for Christian Science. As did Job (19:25) , I too can say, "I know that my redeemer liveth.

For many years I have found joy and inspiration in reading the testimonies in our periodicals. I am grateful to share with others some of the experiences that have meant so much to me since I first became interested in Christian Science.

My coming into Christian Science was like stepping from a dark and gloomy room into a sunlit garden. Although living in a strange country more than three thousand miles from my childhood home and family, I have never known homesickness or been without loving friends who have made me feel I belong to a large and wonderful family, the family of God's ideas.

It is indeed with deep and sincere gratitude for the great blessing that Christian Science has been to me over the past thirty years that I give this testimony. The religion in which I had been carefully brought up as a child failed to answer my questions about life, and I came to the conclusion that I did not need God and would make my family, my home, and my material pleasures suffice.

A most beautiful and lasting healing came to me a number of years ago. I credit the healing to consecrated work on the practitioner's part, an honest desire on my part to stop sinful practices, and a willingness to express gratitude even before the physical healing was manifest.

My gratitude for Christian Science is unbounded for revealing God as my Father and my Mother, as well as my provider. My parents passed on when I was at a very early age.

Six years ago Christian Science found me brokenhearted. After the passing of a beloved parent, I experienced a sense of grief that grew continually worse.